The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 6, 1941, Page 1

THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE.U. Ss. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1941 VOLUME LXII. No. 290, er Capt Ghater The: | | That Of New York City, oo et | TIONAL DEFENSE OFFI. ~ More Beneficial Than | BRRORTER TO SAVE GAP-| WASHINGTON. Dec. 6. In Larger Cities TURED 7,500 GER- {There are people in Washington MAN TROOPS | who will tell you that “Little Oa” | (Floyd Bostwick Odlum) is going! ito be the goat in one of national (By Aumciaita Weiday \defense’s greatest failures—the | THIS. MORNING =" SS em Te (Washington Correspondent of | The Key West Citizen) | WASHINGTON, D. C.. Dec. 6.) » lic housing ratio far above that of | the highly-publicized slum-clear- | ance program of New York City,’ Pating activities in the two cities. The Key West public housing Program provides one dwelling for each 59 residents of the city, USHA reyorted. whereas in New City the per capita ratio is’ Oily one dwelling for each 538 resident:. Commenting upon these figures, Nathan Straus, SHA Adminis- trator, said that they show “a most healthful and substantial develop- Ment of the Federal housing pro- | gram.” Although slum conditions ix lage ‘metropolitan centers such “a9 New York. City anc more spec-.~. *$e@edler than inthe survalier cities, Mp. Straus said." there is & press- ing need for publicly-financed low cost housing in cities the size of Key Weet, * “Results in Key West, he said, should be cven more beneficial than in the larger cities. “In high- ly populous metropolitan areas,” be poimied o public housing must be ditected specifically at the most obvious slum areas. “In a city the size of Ke: he said, “the public hous gram becomes a normal 1 ter part of the comraunity's whole development.” Emphasis on cities the si " even sm will be a definite (Continued on Page Six) MAIL GOES ON AND NOVEL TAKES FORM ify Axsncinted Prem) VICHY, Dec: 6—Waiting .a novel-on post cards is one of the unexpected Frenchmen have to k pecause of the demarcation line which diyides may the or t horses were Nazi Army Continues CAIRO; -Dee:~ 6.—Great Brit-| filure to spread defense con~' ain’s imperial: forces returned to #¢tS ver the nation's small ine: the fferisive in‘Libya and in two SU8ties: There are others who days of fightng captured : 7,500 Axis ~ troops, military ~ sources here said today. ‘The new > British push has re- gaihed considerable ground near ‘Tobruk and in the Salum sector. No-reports were forthcoming from Berlin to deny that the im- perial forces had once again taken the initiative. At Ed Duda, British“forces beat off three Axis attacks at the town which commands the highway just south of Tobruk. The imperial - communique Claims that heavy losses have been inflicted on the enemy but does yot attempt to interpret the action as decisive. Say: Just wait until Od cracks; down. : +. There you. have it. As director lof the Office of, Production Man-: agement’s two-month-old divi- sion of contract distribution, this sight, wiry man who was one of the greatest, if not the greatest, financier spawned by the de- pression, will either emerge as the savior of small manufacering or! fizzle out in solving the biggest problem which has come out of jnational defense. { { Floyd Odlum was born in Union City, Mich. in 1892, one of five children. His father was @ Methodist minister—typical of the clergy that had “one foot in | Heaven” and hands groping oft- ‘en around an almost empty; larder. When his family moved ito Colorado, Floyd went to the DIES THIS MORNING PUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE; CONDUCTED TOMORROW | AFTERNOON we Otte Lundquist, age 72. died. this mroning at 6:10 o'clock at; i , 626 William street. | ervices will be held tomorrow. afternoon from the Frst M. E. (Stone), church. Rev. A. C. Riviere, pas- tor, will officiate. The body wijl be placed in the church at 2 o@jock. Burial will take place im the family plot in the city cemetery. Lopez Funeral Home charge of arrangements. Palibearers selected to are Albert DiNegro, Russell, Olof Soderberg, Clar- ence Allshouse, Capt. A. E. Sharpley and Myron Russell. Tiger Tail Tribe No. 19, Im- proved Order of Red Men, of which the deceased was a._mem- ber. -v attend the funeral in a body. 4 o'clock s im serve Mervin include the widow: s dquist; _a_ sister, Mrs. John Matthews of Miami. a brother, Leonard. Lundquist of Arcadia and te children. rs, Sallie 1 HORSE BURNED UP LEAVENWORTH, Kans.—Pire; men received a. call “that® Yseme herses are on fire at Broadway and Spruce streets”. They sped to the scene Sure enough, burning—saw hors- es. To Press On Moscow (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 6—The Ger- man army t n Moscow in th claims that 10,0 annihilated in the divisions destroyed i rth a wo the Kalinin ‘The Reds admitted that ital : had uring the epast 24 hours. HjElectric Trains - Dolls Hi Lone Ranger Suits | Army Trucks i} Bowling Alleys i Hundreds of Toys, 25c Up } ° i} San Carlos Book Store $18 Duval Street if Hitters’ Neistans ; +meting in large numpers‘German 'f In the tered the South. the Russians bat- creased Ger- ‘essure away from Moscow. A thundering Red artillery bar- with t to dra Tage operied a new Russian offep- \ e near Kharkov and was dec- troops which ‘were-’ said td — be freezing in the suB-zero weather. The Leningrad front which hasj been comparativel nan’ cently broke in a blaze of fiere action as the Soviets started a big Scale counter attack at Tikhvin, 125 miles east of Russia’s second largest city. SERVICE YOUR CAR BATTERY CHARGING G0 minutes) BRAKES TESTED GREASING e Phone No. 5 tread ticket to Salt }Utah Power and Light Co. university and came out of it with a law degree and $5. With} the $5 h® bought a bargain rail-j Lake City,’ for no other reason he can re- call now thar that it was a bar-} gain. With the law degree, he! vot a $50-a-month job with the) When he got raised to $75 he | daughter of an elder in the | Mormon church. A few years later, Odlum went on to New York, an inconspicuous law clerk in the firm which repre- sented Electric Bond and Share | Co., holding company of which the Utah firm was a subsidiary. | Czar of Electric Bond and Share was that fabvlous Wall; Street figure. Sidney Zollicoffer : “Old Profanity” - Mitchell The! story goes that Mitchell wanted} some legal work done in a hurry late one afternoon and found | all his legalites out of the office, except Odlum. He called him in! and the way the slim, sandy- haired young lawyer turned out the job caused Mitchell to have bim transferred to his own of- fice. i From there on, Odlum’s rise: was rapid and steady, By 1920 he! had become a vice president and Six years later was vice chairman! of board. In 1923, with a little family nest-egg, amounting ; ta. $40,000, Odlum organized the Atl&s Utility Corp. (The “Util, ! ity. safterward was dropped when. the word unfairly began to ;assume something in the public mind synonymous with “skin-! game”). ‘ALESHIA JOHNSON | | FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE | HELD TOMORROW AFT- | ERNOON die her resi 1420 Angela street Funeral’ services will be held rrow afternoon at 4:00 k fromthe Ley Memorial Wm, Bryant of- y will be placed in bh at’ 2:03 o'clock. neral Home is in } charge c Survivors include three daugh- S. Ed. Gray, Mrs. Harry Johnson; 16 great- ae: SING ANOTHER CHORUS Also: NEWS and COMEDY White at Fleming] seeseeesceseccocescsoces : “. .. Under my cannon fire his PAUL DANIELS SHOT 10 DEATH BY BANDITS ON ieeaheetll ee FS SCOURING KéYS FOR KILLERS OF PAUL DANIELS One of the greatest man- | hunts in the history of Mcon- foe county was under way teday as all the law enfdrce- ment egencies of Southern Florida combed the Marathon Key for the killers of Paul Daziels. The three men who shot Dariels are believed to be on foot scmewhere in the vicin- ity of Goulds. The patrol car in which they escaped after shooting the former Key West police- man was found wrecked in an embankment rear Goulds. It had been turned over three times, police said. The cer which they stole and which was put out of eperation by the accurate shooting of Daniels was found abandoned in Perrize, FRIIS ESI SH. Paul Daniels, former member of the Key West police force was shet to death shortly 2fter mid- night by.three aytomobile thieves whom he had cornered near Per- Left for dead on the lonely road, Daniels, though mortally wound- ed; remained alive long enough to give a good déscription of one of assailants to_a passing motor- iets, Danicis, 22-year-old Key. West member of the Florida State High- Messe rschmitt literally disintegrated ina * WAS SET Four colored men are {held in the county jail j tioning about a | gela street this o'clock The j wood fram< being for ques 405 An 3:00 fire at morning (EDITOR'S NOTE: Tall building slim, yellow-haired house, was suved | prompt response of firemesm=whe | Tecerved an tede- | phone cali. The informant Bake men annonymeous told Fire Chief BRITAIN, Dec. 6—I am an orig- inal member of the Eagle! Squadron. } And now, as its Jeader, I want} to speak not so much of my! own experiences but to tell of . admiration for the men who Sally Air fighting these days, while it has its characteristics of indi-! vidual combat, is essentially a matter of teamwork That way_Daire! forced the fieeing,.cat a thieves to a halt by puncturing t (Comtinued on Page Site Tension in Japanese Crisis Remains Acute : (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. eC s developed in- ute, as deter- n its policy of ;military forces there is develop which ‘in- dicated that a ed in, the Far } calling ali Br | fa situation ppose we're now.” jto An emergency was declared in the Philippine Island. Ali -non- residents were warned to evacuate Manila. United States Gen. Mc- Arthur, who is in charge of the is- lands, is said to have marsheled prepara- tion for any emergency. From Australia came word ‘that! ; Australia had reiterated: its’ de-* termination to support England in? 7 jany action that it decides to fake against Nippon. ‘The Thailand government is re- ported teady to move the: capital | from Bankog. Np te tin tient te ne tn tnt nt tn > dp Andindindindndndindndndntndndndl : B. P. 0. ELKS NO. 551 Memorial Services SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7TH ~ Bayview Park--5 P.M. Contnue War Wath Bus sie. ‘hel MnO Ge Tepes Ret Sa a TiVeG fom te goceTees gt Une Unr-r CGuOtram & stair ot a